# Perception Engineer at Mach Industries

- Company: Mach Industries
- What the company does: Mach Industries is building faster, smarter defense infrastructure for the modern era. Backed by Khosla and Sequoia.
- Company website: https://www.machindustries.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: Huntington Beach, California, United States; San Francisco, California, United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-02
- Apply by: 2026-10-17
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/machindustries/jobs/4387922009
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/mach-industries-perception-engineer/

## About the role

Mach Industries is building an AI-forward autonomy stack for contested environments where GPS and other sensing are unavailable or unreliable. As a Perception Engineer, you will design, train, and deploy state-of-the-art vision and multi-sensor perception systems that enable navigation, targeting, and automatic target recognition on our product lines. You’ll work across deep learning, computer vision, and embedded systems to bring research-grade algorithms to real-world deployments.

## What they're looking for

- Production C++ on Linux and Python for ML/tooling, profiling, optimization, and rigorous testing discipline. Experience diving into CUDA backends for performance optimization and debugging
- Strong with modern detection/segmentation/tracking (e.g., Retina/FCOS/DETR/Mask2D/Video models) and training/fine-tuning in PyTorch
- Proven experience building large, diverse datasets, labeling/QA pipelines, augmentation, experiment tracking, and reproducible training
- Hands-on with model compression (INT8/FP16), runtime optimization, and real-time constraints
- EO/IR imagery experience and working with real flight/test data in challenging environments
- 7+ years of experience with either a BS/MS/PhD in CS/EE/Robotics or similar, or equivalent experience, track record shipping ML models to production

Tags: Software Engineering